As regular (and probably irregular) readers of Eric's Blog know, I'm a bit of a Southern California wonk and a big part of my focus is writing about the culture, character and history of the many diverse communities of Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Although so far there have been around 800 votes from readers, I thought it would be fun (and hopefully entertaining) to focus on the regions and provide a brief summary of the districts within with the hope of encouraging informed voting. In this entry I'd like to focus on the Mideast Side.
You've never heard of the Mideast Side? That's probably because I made it up as a term to describe the neighborhoods of LA between the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, Midtown, South LA, Downtown and Northeast LA. A stretch of neighborhoods west of the LA river between the peaks of Griffith Park and downtown.
You've never heard of the Mideast Side? That's probably because I made it up as a term to describe the neighborhoods of LA between the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, Midtown, South LA, Downtown and Northeast LA. A stretch of neighborhoods west of the LA river between the peaks of Griffith Park and downtown.
Hollywood secessionists want to claim parts, all the local gangs represent the westside, the cops consider parts of it to be in the Northeast Division, downtowners and developers claim part of it as Central City West, the LA Times covers it under Central Los Angles and mostly non-natives consider it the Eastside.
